Editor's Note Exports, Imports

• Publication year: 2024
• Citation: Vol. 1 No. 4

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Victoria Prussen Spears ^*

No surprise—articles in this issue of The Global Trade Law Journal are talking about exports and imports. If you are involved with trade law—as an attorney, regulator, or businessperson—you are going to want to study the information the authors are providing.

Export Controls

This issue leads with an article titled, "Controlling for the Future: Why Export Controls Are Not Going Anywhere." Here, David P. Levine of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP argues that, despite the prevalence of commentators noting the various ways that the targets of export controls have been able to get around new restrictions, the future of export controls is bright. In Levine's view, the United States' restrictions have been largely successful (even if not completely so), and, perhaps more importantly for the future, its allies seem on-board with the philosophical and policy goals undergirding the controls.

Unfair Import Competition

The article that follows is titled "Trends in Unfair Import Competition." Here, Brooke M. Ringel and Matthew T. Martin of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP explain the legal mechanisms available to U.S. manufacturers to combat unfair import competition. They devote particular attention to petitions and investigations before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission for antidumping and countervailing duties and circumvention inquiries. In addition, the authors highlight the tools administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to address circumvention and duty evasion and they examine recent trends in the use of these mechanisms.

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Aluminum

Then, Nancy A. Noonan, Leah Scarpelli, Jessica Dipietro, Yun Gao, Diana Dimitriuc Quaia, and Mario A. Torrico of ArentFox Schiff LLP explain in their article that importers of products containing an aluminum extrusion part or a part that includes extruded aluminum may now be subject to additional duties.

The title of their piece is "Imported Products Containing an Aluminum Extrusion Part or Any Extruded Aluminum Are Subject to Countervailing Duties; Additional Antidumping Duties Are on the Horizon."

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